Comments on: Los Angeles AFB is home to world’s first solar-powered commissary

By: Nadine

Nadine — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:05:44 +0000

FYI – Nalgene has already started pulling the bottles from store shelves and has already started manufacturing bottles that do NOT contain BPA. So look in stores for the new Nalgene bottles.

By: David

David — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:55:24 +0000

Not Nalgene – those bottles were all recalled – ALL OF THEM – for leeching cancer-causing chemicals into the water.

You make an excellent point, but you want an aluminum SIGG bottle or a stainless steel “Cleen Kanteen” to be truly green and safe.

By: Andrew Gentile

Andrew Gentile — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:27:17 +0000

All of this environmental work that Fiji is doing is great. It is smart, and pro-active; however, it doesn’t change the fact that the production, shipment and consumption of bottled water is one of the first things that needs to change as we transition to a culture of sustainability. Clean water can be sourced in most areas, and where it can’t, local filtration can achieve the same results as natural filtration from which spring water benefits. Real change will come when laws are put into place that force people to consume locally-sourced water, and where the disposable plastic bottle is a thing of the past. We should all have refillable bottles (Nalgene!) that we carry with us and fill up at our local water sources. Between Brita filters and Nalgene bottles, we can be done with this extravagant ravishing of resources.

By: Mr. Sustainable

Mr. Sustainable — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:46:44 +0000

It’s one of the great ironies of the last century – the United States military has been a great ally of the environment (though protecting sensitive lands for training purposes) and one of its worst enemies through burning fossil fuels, killer sonar systems in the oceans and overall consumption of natural resources.

Programs like this remind us of the American military’s potential to offset the damage of its operations and lead the world in converting idle real estate into helpful decentralized electrical generation.